- Colorado Avalanche via twitter: The Avalanche have matched the Flames offer for Ryan O’Reilly.
- Darren Dreger via twitter: Dreger is reporting the Calgary Flames have signed Avalanche center Ryan O’Reilly to a offer sheet.
- Contract: Cap hit of $ 5,000.0 2012-2013: $1,000,000 salary with a signing bonus of $2,500,000. 2013-2014: $6,500,000 salary.
- Darren Dreger via twitter: The Avalanche won’t like the $6.5 million in the second year as that becomes his qualifying offer.
- Bob McKenzie via twitter: If they match the offer, the Avalanche can’t trade O’Reilly for one calender year from the date they match the offer.
If the Avalanche don’t match the offer, they will receive the Flames 1st and 3rd round draft picks this year.